Rendle, A.B. (1916), Maidenia: a new genus of Hydrocharidaceae. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 54: 316, t. 545 [tax. nov.]

• Type: Maidenia rubra Rendle

• Etymology: "The genus is named after Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Sydney Botanic Gardens, to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of examining the specimens."
• Text: "...collected in 1906... by Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald, who recognized the plant as a new genus, and whose name I have adopted."

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 229-231 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 968 [secondary reference]

Cook, C.D.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hydrocharitaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 246, Fig. 61A-C [secondary reference]

Cowie, I.D. in Cowie, I.D., Short, P.S. & Osterkamp Madsen, M. (2000), Hydrocharitaceae. Floodplain Flora. A flora of the coastal floodplains of the Northern Territory, Australia: 196 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2007), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vallisneria L. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: WA, NT

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 515 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & McColl, K.A. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 39: 25 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Vallisneria L. legitimate

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